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11-letter words containing o, n, a, h

  • chaenomeles — any of a genus of deciduous shrubs within the family Rosaceae, native to East Asia
  • chaetognath — any small wormlike marine invertebrate of the phylum Chaetognatha, including the arrowworms, having a coelom and a ring of bristles around the mouth
  • chain coral — coral of the extinct genus Halysites, from the Ordovician and Silurian periods, consisting of oval, laterally compressed corallites united to form a chainlike structure.
  • chain store — A chain store is one of several similar shops that are owned by the same person or company, especially one that sells a variety of things.
  • chain-smoke — Someone who chain-smokes smokes cigarettes or cigars continuously.
  • chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
  • chalcedonic — Of or pertaining to chalcedony.
  • chalcedonyx — a variety of chalcedony characterized by alternate stripes of black and white
  • chalkstones — Plural form of chalkstone.
  • chameleonic — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Chamaeleontidae, characterized by the ability to change the color of their skin, very slow locomotion, and a projectile tongue.
  • champignons — Plural form of champignon.
  • championess — a female champion
  • championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
  • champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
  • chancellors — Plural form of chancellor.
  • chancellory — Alternative spelling of chancellery.
  • chancellour — Archaic form of chancellor.
  • change down — When you change down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
  • change over — If you change over from one thing to another, you stop doing one thing and start doing the other.
  • changeovers — Plural form of changeover.
  • changeround — the process of changing position
  • channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
  • chansonette — a little song
  • chansonnier — a writer of chansons
  • chaoticness — The state or quality of being chaotic.
  • chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
  • chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
  • chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
  • characinoid — of or like a characin
  • charactonym — a name given to a literary character that is descriptive of a quality or trait of the character.
  • chardonnays — Plural form of chardonnay.
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • chattanooga — a city in SE Tennessee, on the Tennessee River: scene of two battles during the Civil War, in which the North defeated the Confederates, cleared Tennessee, and opened the way to Georgia (1863). Pop: 154 887 (2003 est)
  • cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
  • chevrotains — Plural form of chevrotain.
  • china stone — a type of kaolinized granitic rock containing unaltered plagioclase
  • chindonesia — China, India, and Indonesia: seen collectively as the most important developing economies with the best growth markets for investors
  • chinwangtao — Qinhuangdao
  • chiromancer — A palm reader, one who practices chiromancy.
  • chiromantic — relating to chiromancy
  • chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
  • chloanthite — a form of nickel arsenide having commercial importance as a nickel ore
  • chloramines — Plural form of chloramine.
  • chlorinated — Chlorinated water, for example drinking water or water in a swimming pool, has been cleaned by adding chlorine to it.
  • chlorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chlorinate.
  • chlorinator — That which chlorinates.
  • choanocytes — Plural form of choanocyte.
  • choir organ — a part of the full church organ, used for accompanying the choir
  • choke chain — a collar and lead for a dog so designed that if the dog drags on the lead the collar tightens round its neck
  • cholangitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the bile duct.
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